In Friday’s Oregonian Randy Gragg reports on the unveiling of much-anticipated designs for Laika Entertainment’s new campus. Unsurprisingly given that Nike co-founder Phil Knight owns Laika, the new project’s designer is TVA Architects.
No quarrel about that: TVA and head principal Robert Thompson exhibit a “brand of classical, highly modernism, a la Mies van der Rohe by way of Richard Meier.” And I like what I see from the initial renderings (to be posted soon). But what about putting the headquarters in suburban Tualatin?
The question reminded me of something said in a Metropolis magazine article I wrote in 2001 comparing the new Adidas headquarters in North Portland (revamped from the former Bess Kaiser hospital) to Nike’s headquarters in Beaverton. Charlie Hales, a City Council member at the time, said this:
Both companies have shown a lot of community spirit and willingness to be good corporate citizens. But I think the real […]
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